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  • Bangor Academy & Sixth Form College travel to France in the footsteps of Columbanus

    Bangor Academy & Sixth Form College travel to France in the footsteps of Columbanus

    Trip 19-23 May This was our 2nd exchange visit to one of the Columban sites, on our Peregrinus project (we went to Bobbio in September last year and the Italians […]

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    June 12, 2025
  • Words on the Wave

    Words on the Wave

    Friends of Columbanus Bangor were invited to attend the recent launch of a new exhibition at the National Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin, which explores the links between Ireland and Europe […]

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    June 12, 2025
  • Columban Way Newcastle Walk 7th June 2025 – Postponed

    The weather forecast for Saturday is not good with a significant chance of walkers being caught under heavy slow moving showers. So we will reschedule for later in the summer. […]

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    June 5, 2025
  • Poetry Ireland May Day

    Poetry Ireland May Day

    FoCB member Tim Dwyer and  fellow poet Ross Thompson are having a poetry event. The readings will follow themes of May Day and Bealtaine:  renewal, abundance and hope. There will […]

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    April 29, 2025
  • New European Via Columbani Partnership

    New European Via Columbani Partnership

    The official launch of the new European Via Columbani Partnership took place on Saturday 23 November 2024 during the Columbanus Festival in Bangor, Northern Ireland. The Via Columbani Partnership promotes […]

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    March 13, 2025
  • AGM Monday 27 January 2025

    AGM Monday 27 January 2025

    Members are invited to the Friends of Columbanus Bangor Annual General Meeting which will take place on Monday 27 January 2025 in Bangor City Presbyterian Church, 7.00pm – 8.30pm.

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    January 27, 2025
  • Irish Columban Way taster video

    Irish Columban Way taster video

    A three minute video has been produced providing an overview of the Irish Columban Way as walked for the first time by a group of pilgrims this summer. Two more […]

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    December 13, 2024
  • “An Irish Treasure Chest on the Continent” video is now online

    “An Irish Treasure Chest on the Continent” video is now online

    The videos of the keynote lecture “An Irish Treasure Chest on the continent” from the 2024 Columbanus Festival are now online to view at the link below.

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    December 10, 2024
  • An introduction to the Life of St Gall (c 550 – 645 AD)

    An introduction to the Life of St Gall (c 550 – 645 AD)

    Early Life Little is known of St Gall’s early life, but traditions holds that born in Leinster of a prominent Scotti family,  he entered the monastery of Bangor as a […]

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    November 27, 2024
  • Columbanus Festival 2024

    Columbanus Festival 2024

    Gall – the man, the monk, and the bear. Gall, an Irish monk who was educated at Bangor Monastery, left Bangor for Europe circa 590 with Columbanus and 11 other […]

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    October 6, 2024
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